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X11 won't start.
I've installed OBSD on my old PPC emac, however X won't start. Running startx brings up a blank screen and I can't back out of it, the same happens with startkde. Running Xorg -configure starts to generate a .conf file but then hangs. Any ideas?
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Thanks for the welcoming. My apologies for the lack of info.
It is OpenBSD 5.1 and yes, I'm pretty sure all the sets were installed. To be on the safeside, can I reinstall them from the CD? |
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Section 4.11 of the FAQ discusses the steps needed to install filesets after installation. Again, I would recommend installing a snapshot of -current which can be found at any OpenBSD mirror site.
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Ahh, thank you very much. If I can't get it working I'll try the snapshot. It would be a shame if I couldn't get it working.
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Hi abtekk !
Similar issue .. 5.0 didn't bring X on iMac .. then after upgrading to 5.1 current it worked .. but again I've lost it after a recent 5.1 upgrade .. since then I was working without X until I upgraded to 5.2 today .. but still X doesn't work .. :-) .. hence this thread http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=7326 |
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It is only similar because similar hardware is involved. The root causes are most likely not the same.
daemonfowl, yet again you are taking the opportunity to change the subject from discussing abtekk's issue to discussing your own. This isn't helping; this is confusing. You are hijacking discussion yet again. Stop it. |
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I don't know if this might help
In /etc/rc.conf make sure You have this:
pkg_scripts=dbus_daemon http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=7297 |
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Per rc.conf(8) (color added):
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It is advisable to leave rc.conf untouched, and instead create and edit a new rc.conf.local file. Variables set in this file will override variables previously set in rc.conf. |
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Thank you for trying to help, barti.
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It is advisable to leave rc.conf untouched, and instead create and edit a new rc.conf.local file. Variables set in this file will override variables previously set in rc.conf. |
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Do you know which graphics card your eMac has? Wikipedia shows one variant with an nvidia card.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMac#Specifications I certainly suspect that it's a driver issue, but I won't know unless I see a log from X. There was an update in the radeon driver from 5.0 to 5.1, which may have affected something with the PPC build. Quote:
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